Sennheiser PC37X randomly goes bad after disconnecting the cable ?
Greetings, Yesterday I was using my headset like normal with my macbook, just listening to music and on a call with people like usual, and the headset was perfectly fine. The stock wire that came with the headset is extremely long and yesterday it annoyed me very much that it kept getting tangled with itself, so I decided to see if the cable is replaceable. I pulled out the cable from the headset and saw the adapter, and looked online for a replacement. Upon plugging it back in, the audio sounded extremely muffled and washed out. Im not sure what I did wrong to make it mess up like that as I've always taken good care of it, ive had it for about 2 years and its always just been chilling on my desk, but anywho I thought the cable just went bad and ordered a replacement. The replacement came, and the issue is still persistant, so I am not sure what the issue is I've tried multiple different headsets and the issue is not with the port, and I also tried it with my windows laptop and...
Apr 23, 2024
Nothing in the Massdrop specials I've bought looks awful, or even bad. Every one of them that's been tested by highly credible, highly skilled headphone testers, has found that they test weirdly better than the theoretically equivalent mass market units. When there's extensive evidence over the years of people making huge improvements in some absurdly expensive headphones by doing things like tucking toilet paper behind the drivers... People should think about what they care about most. Really, sometimes less expensive design choices can IMPROVE sound.
Sometimes how things look matters a lot. All my CIEMs use custom shell and faceplate designs, with my art, because I wear them on business class flights to the other side of the world from time to time. The esthetics have started conversations that built relationships that... . I get it. But when I'm buying headphones here... I'm the only one who'll see them. I want to be transported and dazzled without inviting family finance discussions. If materials and how they look matter most for you, I get it. Go for it. No judgement. You can't believe what I coughed up for the CIEM designs. (Or, for the amount of business that came out of weirdly non-business issues...) I get it.
For me, so far... Massdrop's design decisions have turned out to be good for sound, good for price. (Pssst... you're only as good as your last release...)